Cutting off your nose to spite your face- Republicans

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18860-republicans-wont-be-nudged-into-cutting-home-energy.html





They are willing to destroy the world just to show they can't be "pushed around."

They are willing to destroy the world just to show they can't be "pushed around."

Some think it is just about courage and persistence.

Not being pushed around is part of Klingon lexicon. It is an idea of strength, but it can be stubbornness or perseverance.

In itself it has no value, it is an additive to something else.


So if you show you can not be pushed around by people doing good, you are doing bad.
If you show you can not be pushed around by people doing bad, you are doing good.


It is not a moral component, and requires also knowing weather it is correct or wrong to know if what you stand for is also the correct values.


Courage is the same way, it also requires other components to be correct, hence the concept of thinking on many things or balanced in all the ways that are good. You have to have courage to stand against that which is bad, but those that are bad can have some courage against good. Although those that do wrong usually have more fear. Since in their hearts they know existence is just.

So things like courage and persistence need also a moral grounding and a strength of character in the better ways of integrity, humility, kindness, and the better ways of the light side, in my belief the ways of the love of God.


And actually many religions do that same thing, they claim God is on their side by their interpretations. I think the idea that we hope God is on our side is better, while each person also spends hours in thought and meditation to try and make their actions also conform to the better things. Many people are stubborn in beliefs so they can do wrong, just like many faithfull in belief do so because they feel and think it is correct.

Much of it is about what a person thinks is a better way to live.

and their neighbors were beating them by using more energy. It is all about "winning" to these guys!

willing to destroy the environment to spite them.

of all liberals. Whatever we are for, they are against.

world doesn't revolve around them. The ones that don't outgrow that infantile mindset become Republicans/conservatives.

who cannot grow emotionally and psychologically past early adolescence. I think their brains are hardwired to that mindset and they appear to be incapable of learning new ways to interact with the world around them. When someone else does something to them, they are outraged, but when they do the same thing, somehow they feel justified never seeing the hypocrisy. It is fascinating to observe them repeat the same behavior over and over again, always getting the same results and not comprehending why.

buddies were still hanging out on the corner. They were still wearing their letter jackets, drinking beer and talking shit. I walked away from them and never went back.

Every town has them. They never grow up past the age of fifteen.

much like children.

have the ability to see the consequences of their actions, or really grasp their mortality. That's one reason they join the army. That's good and bad. There's times we need that unthinking action.